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Let's look at marriage and adultery. To do that, we start at the beginning.
The man said,
"This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called 'woman,'
for she was taken out of man."
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:23-24
Now, if you're one flesh with a person, you can't be one flesh with another. This concept is more profound than the "beast with two backs."
Jonathan Morrow's book Think Christianly: Looking at the Intersection of Faith and Culture discusses what it does to your neurochemistry.
“But a message we need to spread far and wide, a message that comes as a surprise to many people, is that contemporary neuroscience supports the biblical view of sex. Consumer sex only has two rules: (1) both people must consent, and (2) practice safe sex. But there a…
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